Presented at
DEF CON 28 (2020) Virtual,
Aug. 8, 2020, 7 p.m.
(30 minutes)
Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation-the nation's premiere digital civil liberties group fighting for freedom and privacy in the computer age-for a candid chat about how the law is racing to catch up with technological change and discovery.
Then meet representatives from Electronic Frontier Alliance (eff.org/fight) allied community and campus organizations from across the country. These technologists and advocates are working within their communities to educate and empower their neighbors in the fight for data privacy and digital rights.
This discussion will include updates on current EFF issues such as the government's effort to compromise free expression online, the fight to end face surveillance, updates on cases and legislation affecting security research, and discussion of EFF's technology projects empowering users with greater control of what information they share online.
Half of this session will be given over to question-and-answer, so it's your chance to ask EFF questions about the law, surveillance and technology issues that are important to you.
Presenters:
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Nathan Sheard / nash
- EFF
as Nash
nash leads EFF's grassroots, student, and community organizing efforts. As the lead coordinator of the Electronic Frontier Alliance, nash works to support the Alliance's member organizations in educating their neighbors on digital-privacy best practices, and advocating for privacy and innovation protecting policy and legislation.
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Tracy Rosenberg
- Oakland Privacy
Tracy Rosenberg has worked as Media Alliance's Executive Director since 2007 and coordinates Oakland Privacy, a citizens coalition that works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment. OP has written use policies and impact reports for a variety of surveillance technologies, conducted research and investigations, and developed frameworks for the implementation of equipment with respect for civil rights, privacy protections, and community control. Tracy blogs on media policy and surveillance and is published frequently around the country. She currently sits on the board of the Alliance for Community Media Western Region and Common Frequency serves on the anchor committee of the Media Action Grassroots Network
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Elliot
- Cypurr Collective
Elliot is a motion artist and creative coder who works in interactive, fabrication, and large scale immersive experiences. Elliot blends visual work with an interest in mutual aid, security, and privacy online. Based in Brooklyn.
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Abi Hassen
- BMLP
Abi Hassen is an attorney, technologist, and co-founder of the Black Movement-Law Project (BMLP), a legal support rapid response group that grew out of the uprisings in Ferguson, Baltimore, and elsewhere. He is currently a partner at O'Neill and Hassen LLP; a law practice focused on indigent criminal defense. Prior to his current work, he was the Mass Defense Coordinator at the National Lawyers Guild. Abi has also worked as a political campaign manager and strategist, union organizer, and community organizer. Abi conducts training, speaks, and writes on topics of race, technology, (in)justice, and the law.
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Emilie St-Pierre
- Future Ada
Emilie St-Pierre is the Security Ambassador for Future Ada, a Spokane-based non-profit advocating for diversity and inclusion in STEAM. For the past six years, she has used her experience as an offensive security professional to provide privacy and security education within her community. Through her work with Future Ada, she has established free regular workshops and one-on-one technical support to the public. Emilie's focus has been to provide these workshops and services to underrepresented members of the public.
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Hannah Zhao
- Staff Attorney, EFF
Hannah is a staff attorney at EFF focusing on criminal justice and privacy issues, and is part of the Coder's Rights Project. Prior to joining EFF, Hannah represented criminal defendants on appeal in state and federal courts in New York, Illinois, and Missouri, and also worked at the human rights NGO, Human Rights in China. While pursuing her law degree at Washington University in St. Louis, she represented indigent defendants and refugee applicants in Durban, South Africa, and studied international law at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She also competed in, and remains involved with, the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition, including as a problem author in 2019. In college, Hannah studied Computer Science and Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In her spare time, she likes to climb things.
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Rory Mir
- Grassroots Advocacy Organizer, Electronic Frontier Alliance
Rory is a Grassroots Advocacy Organizer primarily working on the Electronic Frontier Alliance. They are also a doctoral student of psychology at the City University of New York Graduate Center studying activist pedagogy. Before coming to the EFF they were active in several New York City groups including the Cypurr Collective, a member of the EFA engaging in community education on matters of cybersecurity. A long time advocate for open education and open science, they want to break down any barriers folks face to free expression, creativity, or knowledge.
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Alexis Hancock
- Staff Technologist, EFF
Alexis works to secure the web by working on HTTPS Everywhere. She has previously been a web developer and system administrator for 7 years and a statistician in the education realm. She has earned degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Media Arts and Technology (B.Sc.) and The New School in Organizational Change Management (MS). She is very passionate about encryption and tech equity for all and has been assisting activists and educators with their tech needs for almost 10 years.
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Eva Galperin
- Director of Cybersecurity, EFF
Eva Galperin is EFF's Director of Cybersecurity. Prior to 2007, when she came to work for EFF, Eva worked in security and IT in Silicon Valley and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations from SFSU. Her work is primarily focused on providing privacy and security for vulnerable populations around the world. To that end, she has applied the combination of her political science and technical background to everything from organizing EFF's Tor Relay Challenge, to writing privacy and security training materials (including Surveillance Self Defense and the Digital First Aid Kit), and publishing research on malware in Syria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan. When she is not collecting new and exotic malware, she practices aerial circus arts and learning new languages.
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Kurt Opsahl
- Deputy Executive Director & General Counsel , Electronic Frontier Foundation
Kurt Opsahl is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to representing clients on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law, Opsahl counsels on EFF projects and initiatives. Opsahl is the lead attorney on the Coders' Rights Project, and is representing several companies who are challenging National Security Letters. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on Kelly v. Arribasoft, MGM v. Groksterand CoStar v. LoopNet. For his work responding to government subpoenas, Opsahl is proud to have been called a "rabid dog" by the Department of Justice. Prior to Perkins, Opsahl was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems. Opsahl received his law degree from Boalt Hall, and undergraduate degree from U.C. Santa Cruz. Opsahl co-authored "Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook." In 2007, Opsahl was named as one of the "Attorneys of the Year" by California Lawyer magazine for his work on the O'Grady v. Superior Court appeal. In 2014, Opsahl was elected to the USENIX Board of Directors.
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